Julian Togelius
Associate Professor at New York University and University of Skövde
Julian Togelius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, New York University, a Guest Professor at University of Skövde, and a co-founder of modl.ai. He works on artificial intelligence for games and on games for artificial intelligence.
His current main research directions involve procedural content generation in games, general video game playing, player modeling, and fair and relevant benchmarking of AI through game-based competitions. Additionally, he works on topics in evolutionary computation, quality-diversity algorithms, and reinforcement learning.
From 2018 to 2021, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Games. Togelius holds a BA from Lund University, an MSc from the University of Sussex, and a PhD from the University of Essex. He has previously worked at IDSIA in Lugano and at the IT University of Copenhagen.